Watching television bad for your health? Pschaw. Just ask doctors in Germany who saved a man's life thanks to Hugh Laurie's US TV series House. The i reports that Marburg University clinic runs a series of lectures titled Dr House revisited – would we have saved the patient at Marburg as well? in which episodes featuring the grizzled doc are shown. When a patient came in suffering from severe heart failure, medics were initially perplexed as to what was causing the condition – until they remembered an episode of the show titled Family Practice in which a character displayed almost exactly the same symptoms. Diagnosing the condition as cobalt intoxication (just like in the show), the patient was sent for treatment and has since recovered. Put on a convincing American accent, sing the Blues – and now save lives … Bertie Wooster has come a long way.
